Neuroscience in the News
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Neuroscience in the News
Dementia happens to be one of the major disorders that effect elderly people and the loved ones closest to them. The memory lapses, personality changes and impaired reasoning associated with dementia are a few reasons why this degenerative disease continues to be researched. With research comes reporting, and many times the report in which the research is delivered is easily filled with misguiding propaganda from the media. In the case of a recent article posted in the Science Daily by Wiley-Blackwell reports on how adult ADHD significantly increases the risk of a common form of dementia. This article differs from the original scientific journal in the European Journal of Neurology by A. Golimstok et al. in a few ways.
Both articles report that dementia with Lewy body’s and ADHD contain hypodopaminergic and noradrenergic substrates which both play a role in developing both these diseases (Wiley 2011). Therefore assuming (and then testing) that adult ADHD could be a precursor for dementia. This hypothesis was tested by researchers in Argentina who conducted a study on patients with two different forms of dementia and a group of healthy patients. These groups were then analyzed to determine which of the patients with dementia had been previously diagnosed with adult ADHD. The results of this study show that 47.8 percent of DLB cases had preceding ADHD symptoms, 15.2 percent of them had Alzheimer’s disease, and 15.1 percent in the control group (Golmistok 2010). The conclusion of this study is that there is a significant risk of DLB in patients with adult ADHD. It was determined that both disorders are pathophysiologically related, but there is no clear reason for the connection, and will call for further investigation (Golmistok 2010).
This paper will further analyze how empirical research results are changed through the delivery by the media. In today’s society with the easy access to the...
Dementia happens to be one of the major disorders that effect elderly people and the loved ones closest to them. The memory lapses, personality changes and impaired reasoning associated with dementia are a few reasons why this degenerative disease continues to be researched. With research comes reporting, and many times the report in which the research is delivered is easily filled with misguiding propaganda from the media. In the case of a recent article posted in the Science Daily by Wiley-Blackwell reports on how adult ADHD significantly increases the risk of a common form of dementia. This article differs from the original scientific journal in the European Journal of Neurology by A. Golimstok et al. in a few ways.
Both articles report that dementia with Lewy body’s and ADHD contain hypodopaminergic and noradrenergic substrates which both play a role in developing both these diseases (Wiley 2011). Therefore assuming (and then testing) that adult ADHD could be a precursor for dementia. This hypothesis was tested by researchers in Argentina who conducted a study on patients with two different forms of dementia and a group of healthy patients. These groups were then analyzed to determine which of the patients with dementia had been previously diagnosed with adult ADHD. The results of this study show that 47.8 percent of DLB cases had preceding ADHD symptoms, 15.2 percent of them had Alzheimer’s disease, and 15.1 percent in the control group (Golmistok 2010). The conclusion of this study is that there is a significant risk of DLB in patients with adult ADHD. It was determined that both disorders are pathophysiologically related, but there is no clear reason for the connection, and will call for further investigation (Golmistok 2010).
This paper will further analyze how empirical research results are changed through the delivery by the media. In today’s society with the easy access to the...